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    The Egg & Ya.


    Guest Rick Research

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    Guest Rick Research

    Here's a nice MVD group that another collector is letting me share here. More to be posted as received! :beer:

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    The "egg"--

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    Himself, wearing the egg on M1947 gimnastyorka:

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    And himself at HQ in M1947 uniform, wearing some sort of "officer of the day" (?) armband at his desk:

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    How neat is THAT? How often do we get Native Environment photos like this?

    The cover of his Honored MVD badge Award Book:

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    And the inside pages, with another M1947 gimnastyorka portrait. Badge # 5485 was authorized by decree of 10 November 1957 for "successful fulfillment of assignments:"

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    More to follow when received! :cheers:

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    Makarov's police long service medals award booklet: nothing odd about the initial 1959 bestowal of his 15 years medal

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    but his 20 on the right hand page shows authorized as of 1965-- yet that entry is dated... 1970!!!

    And here is a 1985 photo ID (in police uniform though surely long retired) as a war veteran. The stamp second from top on the right hand page certifies that from THIS he was thereby authorized for a jubilee OPW2! (I've got similar 1985 stamps on such things as a Victory Over Germany award booklet etc)

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    Comrade Makarov's MMM for 10 years service does not APPEAR to be strange, bizarre and inexplicable

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    ... from the FRONT

    (to be continued :ninja::rolleyes: )

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    Name and valid without photograph... OK. Fine so far.

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    (theme from "Jaws" heard dimly)

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    :Cat-Scratch: Hey! Wait a minute!!!! WHAT the????????

    (first the Spot the Anomaly Quiz, then the punch line :rolleyes: )

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    Ohhhhhhhhhhhhkay then. NOBODY caught the "shaved ring" typical of 1946-47... being handed out in... 1955! :speechless1: Nicely rounded and not the usual sideways "D" but that type nonetheless.

    And oddly enough, I have in my paws today another "shaved circle" MVD/Police MMM... with book dated 1951 and ... no serial number. Of course no serial number-- in 1951! But on a 1946 type medal?

    Which is why Comrade Makarov's has THIS as Quite The Surprise on back of HIS, above:

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    Yup, "1" stamped over "18"

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    :ninja::rolleyes:

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    OK, so now we have 2 different unnumbered ones, disbursed through the NKVD in the 1950's of a late 1940's style.

    What does this tell us?

    What are the significance of the numbers on Makarov's?

    I've never seen a stamp like that one before!?

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